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  • 7/23/2025
Historically, moms are usually the ones that end up putting their careers on hold and staying home after having kids, but things might be changing, albeit slowly. That’s according to a new Pew Research Center study that has found an increasing number of stay at home parents are now dads. Veuer’s Tony Spitz has the details.

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00:00Historically, moms are usually the ones that end up putting their careers on hold
00:03and staying home after having kids.
00:05But things might be changing, albeit slowly.
00:07That's according to a new Pew Research Center study
00:10that has found around 20% of stay-at-home parents are now dads.
00:14That's way up from 1989, growing from just 11% in the last 30 years.
00:19Experts say they attribute this change to a change in the income-earning dynamic between parents.
00:23With assistant professor Brigham Young University's School of Family Life,
00:27Jocelyn Wickle, telling The Hill, quote,
00:29Women's earning potential has risen considerably over this time,
00:32as their educational attainment has steadily increased.
00:35And this will likely continue to change,
00:37given that women have increasingly outpaced men with regards to higher education for years as well.
00:41With the U.S. Census Bureau reporting in 2021
00:44that while 46.9% of men 25 or older had completed a bachelor's degree,
00:49that's compared to 53.1% of women amongst the same-age cohort.
00:53And women now make up some 35% of workers in the highest-paying fields,
00:57up 22% from 1980.
00:59Meanwhile, due to events like COVID keeping more parents at home during their workday,
01:03it's likely helped create somewhat of a cultural shift,
01:05changing the way we see moms and dads and their roles in the home.

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